Looking Back At Health Care Reform

Maria Brewer of Decoder Rings writes a retrospective of the health care debate.

Health care reform is on a trajectory to become reality. When the voters spoke in the fall of 2008, they elected a Democratic President and Democratic majorities to both the US House and Senate. And those majorities are about to represent the will of the people and enact an historic first step to, as our Constitution proclaims, “provide for the common defense, (and) promote the general welfare” of our nation’s most precious resource: the strength and health of our citizens.

For those of us who have been watching the misinformation stream coming out of the Obstructionist’s Party on the right, it has been a head-scratching fight. Though the Republican Party had ten years in the majority to study and pass health care reform legislation to their liking, they did nothing. They continued to let an ever increasing portion of America’s GDP get sucked out of our hides and into the pockets of an industry whose profiteering callousness knows no bounds. Every day American families spend 18% and still rising of our household budgets on healthcare. Well, those of us lucky enough to get it. And now the right’s rallying cry is a weak “Code Red.” Indeed, they have waited until the patient is dying on the table to start their inadequate wails of “save us,” blaming those who are trying to sort through a difficult diagnosis as if we caused the disease.

She also looks forward to what’s going to happen next in her post.

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